Lead Applied LLM / Generative AI Software Engineer - Profitable Health Tech Startup

Lead Applied LLM / Generative AI Software Engineer - Profitable Health Tech Startup

Location: Remote

The company's product is in the realms of healthcare, SaaS, and B2B2C. The product is used by clinics and hospitals to improve the quality of care for their patients.

The company has about 200 employees and 60 engineers. It is profitable and rapidly growing.

The company will pay a salary up to $250k, plus annual bonuses, plus equity which could be valuable. There are also opportunities for frequent raises, with performance reviews every 6 months.

Job Responsibilities:

- Initially 100% individual contributorship, then ramping up to 50% of time on people management within 3-6 months.

- Building and deploying voice-based AI agents using LLMs for real-world tasks (e.g., recommendations, file handling, autonomous workflows).

- Owning the end-to-end architecture across backend systems and AI pipelines.

- Designing and refining prompts for production-level LLM applications.

- Contributing to backend services and infrastructure (APIs, databases, job queues, etc.).

- Solving open-ended problems independently and moving fast in a startup environment.

Qualifications:

- At least 4 years (the more the better) of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years working with AI/LLMs in production.

- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar.

- Strong Python skills.

- Experience designing backend systems at scale (APIs, databases, cloud infra).

- Comfortable building AI agents that can plan and act autonomously.

- Engineering mindset: gets things done, production-focused, handles ambiguity well

Strongly Preferred:

- Agentic AI experience (e.g., multi-step planning agents, memory, tool use).

- Langfuse.

- Startup experience.

Nice to have:

- Node.js familiarity.

- Voice AI or intelligent assistant experience.

- You've worked on something real: shipped a live product, ideally one users can talk to.

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